10 Things Marvel Wants You To Forget About Spider-Man

9. Spider-Man The Jerk

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For many comic book fans, Spider-Man is one of the most relateable superheroes out there €“- a young and vibrant character that is quick witted and intelligent, but also socially awkward and a little shy. But he'€™s also had moments of being a jerk and a bully himself, especially when it involves his long time adversary-turned-friend, Johnny Storm, aka the Human Torch.

Some of Spidey'€™s worst behavior can be found in one of the earliest issues of Amazing Spider-Man. In it, Spider-Man crashes one of Johnny€™'s parties and, without provocation, proceeds to antagonize Storm and his friends with webbing and insults. Johnny€™'s posse is justifiably ticked off by Spider-Man and demand that Storm gets rid of the uninvited guest.

Spidey is so unlikeable in this story, it is very difficult to relate and sympathize with the character. He'€™s no worse than his high school nemesis Flash Thompson, picking a fight with the Human Torch just because.

Fortunately, Marvel moved far away from this characterization of Spider-Man shortly after this issue.

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Mark is a professional writer living in Brooklyn and is the founder of the Chasing Amazing Blog, which documents his quest to collect every issue of Amazing Spider-Man, and the Superior Spider-Talk podcast. He also pens the "Gimmick or Good?" column at Comics Should Be Good blog.